A former Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Martin Luther Agwai said in Kaduna on Thursday that he had no regret in his prediction that change was inevitable in the country before the March 28 presidential election, in which Muhammadu Buhari defeated President Goodluck Jonathan.
Agwai, whose utterances at the ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo’s birthday cost him his job as the the Chairman of SURE-P, spoke at the inaugural lecture of the incoming government of the All Progressives Congress in Kaduna State.
The lecture has as its theme ‘Building Rome in a day with one kobo; El-Rufai and the challenge of 21st Century Kaduna’.
The former SURE-P chairman noted that when he said change was inevitable in the land as a result of the state of the nation, “some people didn’t like it and sacked me.”
He said since change had taken place in Nigeria, he would not be sacked for saying “anything now.”
The former Chief of Defence Staff said, “I do not have regrets over what I said in March. I predicted that there would be a change and some people did not like it but whatever I say today, nobody will sack me again.”
Speaking on the emergence of the former FCT Minister, Malam Nasir el-Rufai, as governor of Kaduna State, Agwai said el-Rufai was elected based on his competence and what he would do for the people of the state.
He believed that with el-Rufai as the governor of the state, the people would have no cause to regret because of “el-Rufai’s track records.”
“We have potential in Kaduna and that is why the people elected el-Rufai,” he said.
Meanwhile, el-Rufai, said at the event that there were armed robbers in the outgoing administration of Governor
Mukhtar Yero.
According to el-Rufai, he will not waste his time trying to recover small money allegedly stolen by politicians but would be after those that stole “billions of Naira.”
Agwai, whose utterances at the ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo’s birthday cost him his job as the the Chairman of SURE-P, spoke at the inaugural lecture of the incoming government of the All Progressives Congress in Kaduna State.
The lecture has as its theme ‘Building Rome in a day with one kobo; El-Rufai and the challenge of 21st Century Kaduna’.
The former SURE-P chairman noted that when he said change was inevitable in the land as a result of the state of the nation, “some people didn’t like it and sacked me.”
He said since change had taken place in Nigeria, he would not be sacked for saying “anything now.”
The former Chief of Defence Staff said, “I do not have regrets over what I said in March. I predicted that there would be a change and some people did not like it but whatever I say today, nobody will sack me again.”
Speaking on the emergence of the former FCT Minister, Malam Nasir el-Rufai, as governor of Kaduna State, Agwai said el-Rufai was elected based on his competence and what he would do for the people of the state.
He believed that with el-Rufai as the governor of the state, the people would have no cause to regret because of “el-Rufai’s track records.”
“We have potential in Kaduna and that is why the people elected el-Rufai,” he said.
Meanwhile, el-Rufai, said at the event that there were armed robbers in the outgoing administration of Governor
Mukhtar Yero.
According to el-Rufai, he will not waste his time trying to recover small money allegedly stolen by politicians but would be after those that stole “billions of Naira.”
